POETRY

At the Zoo
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There are lions and roaring tigers,
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and enormous camels and things,
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There are biffalo-buffalo-bisons,
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and a great big bear with wings.
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There’s a sort of a tiny potamus,
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and a tiny nosserus too-
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But I gave buns to the elephant
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when I went down to the Zoo!

There are badgers and bidgers and bodgers,
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and a Super-in-tendent’s House,
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There are masses of goats, and a Polar,
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and different kinds of mouse,
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And I think there’s a sort of a something
which is called a wallaboo*-
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But I gave buns to the elephant
Photo of an Elephant and a Bun
Photo of an Elephant and a Bun

when I went down to the Zoo!

If you try to talk to the bison,
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he never quite understands;
You can’t shake hands with a mingo**-
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he doesn’t like shaking hands.
And lions and roaring tigers
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hate saying, “How do you do?”-
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But I gave buns to the elephant
Photo of an Elephant and a Bun
Photo of an Elephant and a Bun

when I went down to the Zoo!